See also:
Mr. Donn's Ancient Africa unit - Many lessons and units on ancient and modern Africa from Mr. Donn including history, geography, animals, kings & queens, and more (Y O M)
Africa's geography - From Zoom School, mostly includes maps and facts (lots of maps with and without labels) (Y O M)
To Timbuktu - "Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) is to this day known as one of the great travelers of all time. His journeys covered the entire Moslem world of his day plus Ceylon, Byzantium, China, and southern Russia. The length of his travels is estimated to be 75,000 miles. (M)
Antarctica - the frozen continent - from Zoom School, mostly facts (Y)
Roald Amundsen: Conqueror of the Ice - Nice unit study from the Home School Learning Network; includes lots of resource links (M)
Live from Anarctica 2 - An educational website from NASA with lots of activities to include in an Antarctic unit study (M, O)
Virtual Trip to Antarctica - "Take a cool Internet tour of Antarctica in the warmth of the classroom. Included: Fifteen Antarctica teaching activities for across the grades and across the curriculum." (Y O M T)
Name the Continents! - From Playkidsgames.com. This game requires the Macromedia Flash plug-in to be installed. If the game does not display after a few minutes or if the game does not work correctly, the latest plug-in should be installed. (Y, M, O)
Canada's Geography - Activities and information on Canada's geography. Links to explorers, artists, fossils, and crafts. (Y)
Italy's Geography - (Y, M, O, T)
Continents and Oceans Online Quiz - Test your geography knowledge of continents and oceans (Y, M, O, T)
Egyptian Geography (see the Teacher's Guide) - Mysteries of Egypt by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (Y, M, O, T)
Look, you're wearing geography - - What does geography have to do with you? Imagine if you were allowed to wear clothes that were made only in your state. What if you had food to eat that was grown and processed only in your state? How would your life be different? This lesson introduces the concept of global interdependence by exploring the origins of many of the goods that students wear and use every day. (M)
Maps and Map Skills - From Gander Academy (Canada); includes Continental Maps, Maps of Nations of the World, Destinations: Maps and Basic Information on World Nations, Teacher Activity Center: Outline Maps, Maps of the World, Outline Maps, and Political World Map. (Y, M, O, T)
Columbus' Voyage: - From Enchanted Learning; the student makes a map of Columbus' voyage and small replicas of his three ships. This project teaches geography and history. (Y, M, O, T)
Atlapedia - Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. (Y, M, O, T)
The Great Globe Gallery - Hundreds of photos, maps, and reference resources of earth. (O)
National Geographic Maps Online - Dynamic maps, atlas maps, and flags and facts. (Y, M, O, T)
Quick Maps of the World - Small GIF maps of the countries of the world are added to this site, one at a time, in order of demand. (Y, M, O, T)
Color Landform Atlas of the US - Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state. (Y, M, O, T)
All About World Geography - Sheppard Software's geography games (M)
Even More Geography Units - (O)
Human Rights Resources - UNHRC offers free educational resources about human rights on their website. Resources include posters, lesson plans, magazines, videos, and games. The Human Rights Teaching Kit "is designed to help teachers prepare lessons, which demonstrate the relation (O,T)
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George - (Y)
Geography Units - (O)
Make Way for Ducklings - Geography - Economics Lessons (Y)
Life on the Great Plains - In this four-part lesson, students examine the concept of geographic region by exploring the history of the Great Plains. (O)
Polar Ice Caps - 10th Grade (O)
Geography 4 kids - Website that teaches the basics of geography and earth sciences to all ages. It has sections on earth energy, earth structure, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, climates, and BGC cycles (biogeochemical). (Y, M, O, T)
Animated Atlas - Growth of a Nation is a free, ten minute movie which depicts the geographic history of the United States from the beginning of the nation to fifty states. Geographic elements are interactive, as is the timeline." The movie can be watched as one long piece (Y, M, O, T)
1,000 hour day - "In July & August 2005, Chris Bray (Explorers Club member and Australian Geographic Society's 'Young Adventurer of the Year' 2004) and Clark Carter will head deep inside the Arctic-Circle. The goal of our 2-man team is to hike unsupported across Victoria. (Y, M, O, T)
Ancient Egypt Teacher Resource File - Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Ancient Egypt Teacher Resource Page. You will find Internet resources on topics of interest to teachers, librarians and students (T)
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (Y, M, O, T)
Mission Geography: Continents - National Geographic unit about continents (Y)
A Month of Mapping Literature - "Take your students on a world tour with literature! Students read and discuss a new story or book each day. Students plot the locations of the story or book on a world map or globe." (Y, M, O, T)
CopyCat Continents Game - National Geographic Society (Y M)
Fantastic Journeys:Yellowstone - Explore Yellowstone National Park, a place unlike any other on earth. See strange marvels. Go underground to find out what causes them. And trigger an eruption of the world famous geyser Old Faithful! (Y,M)
Creative Geography Cards - Add some creativity to geography class! Make decorated country flash cards that will familiarize your students with the culture of the country. Add important geography facts to the back and use for quizzing! Ages 8 and up. (Y)
Learn NPS - From the National Park Service, Learn NPS is an online resource for educators wishing to utilize all that the NPS has to offer, even if they can't visit the parks in person. "Here you'll find curriculum, fun and games, a guide to park Junior Ranger progra (Y, M, O, T)
Human Migration: The Story of the Cultural Landscape - This lesson will help students understand key concepts of human migration through the examination of maps and census data. They will then research and document the impact of migration on a region's cultural landscape. Students will examine migration patterns on a global and national scale as a class and then apply that understanding to telling a migration story about their own community. Grades 6-8 from Xpeditions, National Geographic Society. (M)
The World Factbook - From the CIA includes world reference maps, guides to Country Profiles, and Flags of the World. (Y, M, O, T)
Creating a Classroom Community - Promoting Geographic Knowledge Through Literature. Grade 3 (Y)
A Bird’s Eyeview of Geography - An Elementary School Geography Lesson Plan. Grades K-5 (Y)
Regions of the United States - (Y)
File Folder Game - Want a fun and effective way to review spelling words or the phonograms? All you have to do is sign up for the free spelling newsletter at All About Spelling and you can download this game. Have you heard of file folder games? They are a good way to review facts. All you need are the game board and some flashcards. You can use them to practice spelling, phonograms, math facts, geography facts, or any other subject. (Y)
Globalmania eBook - From Knowledge Quest, this eBook promises to teach world geography in just 7 months. I have used other KQ products and they are high quality. Globalmania makes use of an organized plan and online resources to help students master world geography. It also includes several quality world maps. The eBook is a PDF download that will require going through the checkout process but does not require any payment information. Checkout will show a $0 due and will process the order without payment. (Y, M, O, T)
Map Reading - Lesson plan for younger students (Y)
Play-doh map activity - Make a play-doh map of your state (Y)
Online maps - Several online geography resources are available at geography.com. (Y, M, O, T)
All About the United States - Games to make learning more fun. Games for states, cappitals and landscapes. (Y, M, O, T)
GeoNet - A complete Social Studies and Geography game for both the United States and the World. Includes questions related to the World and US in Spatial Terms, Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society, and the Uses of Geography (Y, M, O, T)
Xpeditions Atlas - From National Geographic. Maps made for printing and copying (Y, M, O, T)
National Geographic Lesson Plans - The lesson plans on this site were written by educators and have been tested in the classroom. Together, they address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards, the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives. Serving a variety of needs, the plans include a wide range of teaching strategies. The assessment component of each lesson focuses on the knowledge and skills that students will use to answer a guiding geographic question as they address real-world issues. K-12th Grade (Y, M, O, T)
Xpeditions Activities - From National Geographic. Xpeditions activities offer younger and older Xpeditioners the opportunity to use geography to complete a variety of missions. Parents, teachers, and friends can lend a hand. Xpeditioners are encouraged to use the "X-tras"—maps, games, stories, Web sites, and interactive features—to complete the tasks and to visit related annexes in Xpedition Hall once their mission is through. All activities are based on the U.S. National Geography Standards, and complementary lesson plans are available for educators. (Y, M, O, T)
GeoBee Challenge - Test your geography smarts right here online. Each day we'll post ten questions from the National Geographic Bee. Some of them are real stumpers, but it's okay if you miss a few—you can play as often as you like. Come back everyday for a brand new quiz and another chance to beat the Bee! (O)
Louisiana Geography Map - (Y, M, O, T)
Maps of the World and United States - (Y, M, O, T)
Korean Geography: Where in the World are We? - By comparing the size and location of Korea to that of different countries, students will locate Korea on a map, gain an understanding of absolute and relative location, and create a “mental map” of the East Asia region. (M O)
North Korea's Nuclear Weapon Test - A mapping exercise that examines the geopolitical implications of North Korea's recent nuclear tests. (M,O)
News Bowl USA - The #1 Current Events Quiz Game! News Bowl is a one-of-a-kind activity that will immediately win over your student. News Bowl is the ONLY current events weekly quiz game in the education market that incorporates important weekly news and the fun not-so-serious events of the day. News Bowl questions integrate history, geography, language skills, critical thinking skills and cooperative learning skills. News Bowl is fun enrichment that promotes life-long learning education. Check out a free sample News Bowl game at the top of the page. Gr 3-12 (Y, M, O, T)
World Atlas - World atlas has flags of all countries, states and territories as well as a list of continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, and the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest, deepest, oldest, youngest, richest, poorest places on the planet. Free maps test are available for teachers and if you are looking for an outline map that isn't listed, you can email them and they will send it to you by email. They offer a daily geography quiz (with a cash prize) which starts with one question and additional clues are added each day until someone wins. Once there is a winner a new quiz is posted the next day. (Y, M, O, T)
LessonPlans for Australian Animals and Biomes - Grades 4-12 (M O)
Sheppard Software - Free and fun to play geography games. There are various levels of play so that your beginners and advanced students alike can find something to hold their interest. You do need to have Flash Player 6 or higher on your computer to be able to play these games, but no other downloading is necessary. (Y, M, O, T)
Owl & Mouse Educational Software - Free maps and map puzzles to learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Free interactive maps and map puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments. Maps are vital to our understanding geography and the world we live in. Interactive and fun, Maps that Teach help students learn basic geography. (Y, M, O, T)
Lizard Point Geoquiz - Test your Geography Knowledge Click on an area of the map to select a quiz (Y, M, O, T)
I Like To Learn - Geography - Allows you to not only learn about the countries and capitals of the world, but also the mountains and bodies of water. (Y, M, O, T)
Action Quiz » Geography - Do this free geography quiz and let’s see how much you know about geography. Can you tell a country or city by a marking on a map of Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, Europe, the USA or the World? And how well do you know country shapes? Or capital cities? Other geography themes include license plates, flags, left driving countries, airlines and currencies. Each of these fun and free geo quizzes contain plenty of questions, so you can play this geography game again and again. Besides, your play against other computer opponents every time, so each geo quiz you take is a new challenge. Will you make it to the geography quiz final and win? (Y, M, O, T)
Geosense - Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player (Y, M, O, T)
Atlapedia Online - Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world (Y, M, O, T)
CountryReports.Org - Cultural, historical and statistical country information. (Y, M, O, T)
tlsbooks.com - free geography worksheets - Free geography worksheets for preschool through 5th grade. (Y)
Helping Your Child Learn Geography - Ideas for free or inexpensive materials to teach your child geography. (Y T)
Seterra - Learn Geography - Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises! Freeware download. (Y, M, O, T)
CIA Kids' Page - Welcome. We’re glad you’re here to learn more about the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is an independent US government agency that provides national security “intelligence” to key US leaders so they can make important, informed decisions. CIA employees gather intelligence (or information) in a variety of ways, not just by “spying” like you see in the movies or on TV (though we do some of that, too). On the following pages, you can read more about us, play some games, and help us solve some puzzles. Throughout this section, you’ll also see some top secret things you won’t find anywhere else. (Y, M, O, T)
National Geographic Kids - This large sub-site of National Geographic online is a wonderful destination for kids. The site features appealing video, photos and profiles about animals in the Creature Features area. Additionally, there are People & Places profiles of countries, interactive adventures and brain teasers to sharpen students' skills in a fun, engaging way. (Y, M, O, T)
Global Bros - Chronicles the adventures of two real-life kids, Stefan and Tyler, as they update readers about their year-long family trip around the world with their Mom and Dad. Kids can get to know them through the intro and follow them as they chat about their adventures through a blog. Talk about the ultimate homeschooling adventure! (Y, M, O, T)